[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13565) putting ptile->owner into playermap is bad

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13565 >

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jason Short wrote:
> After more playing with this rule change I'm again convinced it's bad.
> The attached image shows why.It leads to inconsistent drawing of
> border info since tiles are discovered one at a time.When mass amounts
> of borders change this leads to badly drawn tiles.
>
> Background: we had this exact same discussion when borders were
> implemented.The conclusion reached then is that keeping the borders
> omniscient was the only solution, even though it does have the drawback
> of omniscience.However later after sufficient people reported this as
> a bug it was changed to be non-omniscient.

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I do not understand what you are saying above.
What is 'this rule' and don't we have omniscient borders as of now?

  - Per